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- Sex shop crimes: How vandals, creeps and violence threaten our neighborhood vibrator peddlers
- Fugitive treasure hunter’s assets sought as he faces hearing
- Vaccine debate tests first-time White House hopefuls
- The 10 safest cities in the world
- Robert Reich: The sharing economy is hurtling us backwards
- A willful ignorance on welfare: George Will and the right’s complete disregard for the reality of poverty in America
- “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is a lie: What Ashton Carter should be asked today
- White male temper tantrums: What the “political correctness” debate completely misses
- America’s vaccination nightmare: What Christie & Paul’s nonsense is really about
- Lani Guinier on our Ivy League meritocracy lie: “You don’t want only those people who do well on the SAT”
- “Black people. That’s what he thinks this was all about”: How Romney’s 2012 concession irked Obama
- “We can’t be a perpetually punitive society”: Connecticut governor proposes criminal justice reforms
- Glenn Beck compares anti-vaxxers with Galileo: “Nobody that hasn’t done their homework says no to vaccines”
- Jon Stewart slams Chris Christie, Rand Paul for vaccination comments
- University of Vermont officially recognizes neutral third gender
- Conservative group threatens McCain primary challenge
- America’s “free time” problem: Why nearly half of U.S. workers don’t get enough of it
- Rand Paul linked with anti-vaxx doctors’ organization
- Bill de Blasio calls for big boost in New York City’s minimum wage
- Watch Jimmy Fallon perform as Neil Young with Neil Young
- You call this a doctor? What’s really behind Rand Paul’s junk science
- Monogamy is the natural way for humans — but so is polygamy
- Questlove’s “Parks & Recreation” cameo last night was a perfect salute to longtime fans
- Bobby Jindal’s purity party: The self-defeating quest for “true conservative” health reform
- Twitter is flipping out over the “Magic Mike XXL” trailer — for good reason
- Patients and doctors sue to legalize aid in dying in New York
- Ted Cruz roils GOP again: The right’s exciting blame-shifting, intra-party trolling
- Utah Republican wonders if it’s OK to rape an unconscious woman as long as that unconscious woman is your wife
- “I don’t think it’s wholesome or safe to consume”: Why a former meat inspector is blowing the whistle
- Horrific: United Nations accuses Islamic State of torturing, murdering children
- Underuse of birth control results in 15 million unwanted pregnancies per year
- FCC chairman proposes reclassifying Internet as a public utility
- “Game of Thrones”‘ Mountain just broke a 1,000 year old strength record
- GOP’s immigration endgame: Waiting patiently for Republican leaders to cave to Obama
- It’s time to call Scott Walker a 2016 frontrunner
- Missouri’s awful new move to tighten abortion restrictions
- We can’t believe we have to explain this: Wash your f***ing hands
- “F***ing peasants”: Conrad Hilton arrested for assaulting flight attendants in an epic air rage tantrum
- Koch donors want you to know that the Koch brothers will save American democracy
- “Game of Thrones” pop-up restaurant coming to London
- Grain mostly lower, livestock lower
- “The truth is unspeakable”: A real American sniper unloads on “American Sniper”
- “Defender of the geek honor”: Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the “nerdiest” things he’s ever done
- Floyd Mayweather denied Australian visa because of domestic violence history
- Joe Scarborough’s shameful climate science fail: “There is still a debate”
- “Get in Trouble”: Going back inside the weird and wonderful world of Kelly Link
- “Allegiance” is the boring, pointless knockoff of “The Americans” that nobody asked for
- “Seventh Son”: Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore almost rescue this poor man’s “Game of Thrones”
- Against being “sponsored”: I never wrote less than when my boyfriend supported me
